{"id":209,"date":"2009-03-06T10:18:33","date_gmt":"2009-03-06T10:18:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greek-islands-portal.com\/english\/?p=209"},"modified":"2021-03-08T11:40:28","modified_gmt":"2021-03-08T09:40:28","slug":"geographical-historical-outline-of-ikaria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greek-islands-portal.com\/english\/geographical-historical-outline-of-ikaria\/","title":{"rendered":"Geographical &#038; Historical Outline of Ikaria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Geographical &amp; Historical Outline of Ikaria<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Ikaria lies between Samos, to the east and Mykonos, to the west.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">It has an elongated shape, an area of 255 square kilometers and 102 kilometers of coastline.<br \/>\nThe highest peak on the island is Atheras (1037 meters) which divides it into two parts: the north part is relatively flat, with fertile plains, while the south descends sharply to the sea.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">On the west coast of the island are the thermal springs famous since antiquity.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Geographical &amp; Historical Outline of Ikaria<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/greek-islands-portal.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/ikaria-evdelos20_20070305064939.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-9463 size-full\" title=\"Geographical &amp; Historical Outline of Ikaria\" src=\"https:\/\/greek-islands-portal.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/ikaria-evdelos20_20070305064939.jpg\" alt=\"Geographical &amp; Historical Outline of Ikaria\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/greek-islands-portal.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/ikaria-evdelos20_20070305064939.jpg 640w, https:\/\/greek-islands-portal.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/ikaria-evdelos20_20070305064939-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">In older times Ikaria was called Makris and Doliche.<br \/>\nIts present name is connected with the legend of Ikaros, son of Daedalos who felt into the sea near the island when the sun melted his wings, after which the area was called the Ikarian Sea.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The island was colonized by Militos and was conquered by the Persians during the Persian Wars.<br \/>\nIt later became a member of the Athenian Confederacy.<br \/>\nThe ancient cities on the island were Oinoe, Thermae and Drakanos.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">In 133 BC it became subject to the Romans and during Byzantine times it was used as a place of exile.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">In 1204 it became a province of the Latin empire of Constantinople.<br \/>\nIt later reverted to the Byzantines and was then ceded to the Knights of St. John in 1484.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">In 1521 it became subject to the Turks. Many local patriots took part in the Greek War of Independence of 1821. However, the London Protocol of 1830 determined that the East Aegean islands should remain part of the Ottoman Empire, and it was not finally liberated until 4 November 1912.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ikaria.gov.gr\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Municipality of Ikaria<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/greek-islands-portal.com\/english\/\">Home<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hellas-radio.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1103 size-full\" title=\"HellasRadio\" src=\"https:\/\/8000.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Hellasradio.png\" alt=\"HellasRadio\" width=\"340\" height=\"57\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ikaria lies between Samos, to the east and Mykonos, to the west.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Geographical &amp; 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